A second volume will appear in 2018, THE THRIVING PROFESSOR.
"I remember with fondness the advice Martin Krieger gave me when I was writing THE SECOND SELF and my tenure case was soon to come up. He said, 'Write every day, you can always revise later.' Krieger is an ally who keeps pragmatism and scholarly aspiration in his sights. Only that strategy will help you have the career of your dreams."
Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT.

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Big Issues: the Future of this Blog

In future posts I will be writing about the biggest issues, leaving aside the concerns with the academic life that have informed this blog since it began. There is little new to say about Scholars' Survival, and I will leave it to other. But it makes sense to take on other issues...

Recent books are: Urban Tomographies (2011), Doing Physics (2012), The Scholar's Survival Manual (2013), and there will be a second edition of my Doing Mathematics (2003). For the last fifteen years I have been doing systematic photographic, video, and aural documentation of Los Angeles and Southern California. For more on me and my work, go to